It was like a scene from a tragic movie: two people on their honeymoon when their plane crashes into a mountainside killing them and their pilot. The search immediately began but bad weather and jungle coverage hampered efforts to recover the aircraft and the bodies. But this sad story is not from a movie and […]
And while the wreckage of the Blancaneaux plane has been found, the same cannot be said for five fishermen who also went missing during the bad weather from Gamma late last week. Today Jacqueline Woods spoke with the sisters of one of the missing men. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-nine year old Alfredo Pott remains missing […]
The last two months have not been good for Belize’s tourism industry. On October twenty-second, twenty-eight year old Abigail Brinkman lost her life when she and three other tourists tried to swim to a nearby caye after their boat experienced engine trouble. Then on November thirteenth, a backpacker, twenty year old Julia Armstrong Minard, was […]
Tonight police in the north are investigating a sexual attack against a young child that has traumatised the victim and shocked his community. According to authorities, on Sunday afternoon the cries of a child and the sounds of a commotion sent several concerned residents of San Jose in the Orange Walk District rushing to a […]
Meanwhile, in the Supreme Court today, sexual assault charges were dropped against two men for an incident involving a fourteen year old girl. According to court reports, prosecutor Marjorie Moyston has submitted an “offer of no evidence” in the case against twenty year old Robert Chavez and twenty-five year old Leon Perez, both of Gales […]
Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for a man who bought a six thousand dollar T.V. with a bogus check. According to police, a sales representative for furniture and appliance emporium Courts has reported that a man claiming to be Samer Safa walked into the store on Wednesday and bought a forty-two inch […]
A Belize City man who tried to pull a fast one on a taxi driver has been found guilty and fined for his actions. Twenty-nine year old Shane Espinosa will have to pay three thousand dollars by December twenty-first or spend three years behind bars and keep the peace for a year. In July, Espinosa […]
Late this evening News Five received a call from a concerned citizen in Ladyville who reported the discovery of human remains. Jacqueline Woods visited the site and files this report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The human skull along with other remains was found approximately fifteen feet off one of the main roads into Vista Del Mar. […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this post-Gamma issue of Sports Monday. It proved to be a case of water, water everywhere as tropical storm Gamma passed very near the Belizean coastline over the weekend. As a result, all sporting events scheduled from Friday through Sunday were washed out. On the […]
